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One point no one has mentioned and I've wondered from time to time |
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myself is whether one can expect gentoo to continue into the future |
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for a long while, as compared to the likely hood of opensuse or maybe |
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debian that has been around a very long time. |
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It seemed at one time a year or so ago that gentoo's longevity was |
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questionable. (Possibly my own mis-perception) |
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For the OP, a few posters have mentioned that under gentoo, every |
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thing is compiled from scratch, but it was not made clear that it |
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happens again and again at most updates. |
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No one has made clear that there is a very HUGE amount of time sunk |
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into compiling absolutely everything. |
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A single update, if one lets updating slip a bit, can literally take |
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days to compile. And more days to reconfigure so that everything works |
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again. |
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